Great Works: Encounters with Art

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Michael Glover

Hardcover |17.78 x 3.81 x 24.77 cm | 224 pp

Prestel | 2016 |9783791383019

Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have turned to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover’s thoughts about a particular piece of art. Pithy, astute, erudite, often humorous, and always engaging, these enormously popular essays are filled with compelling and entertaining observations as well as trenchant commentary about art, history, culture, and humanity.

Collected in book form, this selection of 50 essays, a number of which have been exclusively written for this volume, is organisedto allow readers to see connections and juxtapositions between works. Their subjects cover an enormous span in terms of style, era, and geography from Rembrandt’s Bathsheba with King David’s Letter and El Greco’s The Vision of St. John to Ai Wei Wei’s Iron Tree and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Single Lily with Red.